Lucky Boy Group

Occurrence in Owyhee county in Idaho, United States with commodity Mercury
Sections on this page
  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Materials information
  7. Host and associated rocks
  8. Nearby scientific data
  9. Controls for ore emplacement
  10. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Ownership information
  12. Links to other databases
  13. Bibliographic references
  14. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10040395
MRDS ID M055151
Record type Site
Current site name Lucky Boy Group

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Centroid
Geographic coordinates: -116.1647, 42.57953 (WGS84)
Relative position Original record had no coordinates, so this was plotted to the middle of the state/county area.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Owyhee(county)

Idaho(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Sugarloaf(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Triangle(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Jordan Valley(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Bruneau(hydrologic unit)

Middle Snake-Boise(hydrologic accounting unit)

Middle Snake(hydrologic subregion)

Pacific Northwest(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Bureau of Land Management(Bureau of Land Management ID)

Bureau of Land Management ID BLM(Type of land area)

BLM(Federal land areas administered by BLM)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Idaho Owyhee

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Mercury Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Jasper Gangue
Opal Gangue

Analytical data

Result ASSAYS TO .1 LB/TON

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Pyroclastic Rock > Tuff
    Rock unit name Idavada Volcanics-Siliceous Flows And Tuffs
    Rock description Idavada Volcanics-Siliceous Flows And Tuffs
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Pyroclastic Rock > Tuff

Nearby scientific data

Centroid (1) -116.1647, 42.57953

Economic information

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Cinnabar Occurs With Opal Along Fractures In Silicious Flows And Tuffs.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Owyhee Min. Co.
    First year 1968

Comments on development

  • 9 UNPATENTED CLAIMS ( 1968 )

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    HANSEN, O. T., 1968 , 67TH ANN. REPT. OF THE MINING INDUSTRY OF IDAHO FOR 1968

  • Deposit

    1958 DIREXPL DMEA, FOUND NO SIGNIFICANT OR

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-SEP-73 Bergquist, Joel R. U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-OCT-77 Iller, Pat J. U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

Supplemental information added by qvyshift.com. Not part of the original USGS MRDS record.